{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sanctions-humanitarian-exception-amendment-regulations-2023/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2023/121",
  "legislation_title": "The Sanctions (Humanitarian Exception) (Amendment) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sanctions-humanitarian-exception-amendment-regulations-2023",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThe Sanctions (Humanitarian Exception) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (“the Regulations”) are made under the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (c. 13) (“the Sanctions Act”).\nThe Regulations amend a number of sanctions regulations which have been made under section 1 of the Sanctions Act, namely:\nthe Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/411);\nthe Democratic Republic of the Congo (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/433);\nthe South Sudan (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/438);\nthe Iran (Sanctions) (Nuclear) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/461);\nthe ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida (United Nations Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/466);\nthe Central African Republic (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/616);\nthe Lebanon (Sanctions) (Assassination of Rafiq Hariri and others) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/617);\nthe Somalia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/642);\nthe Mali (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/705);\nthe Iraq (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/707);\nthe Sudan (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/753);\nthe Yemen (Sanctions) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1278);\nthe Libya (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1665); and\nthe Haiti (Sanctions) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1281).\nIn implementation of the humanitarian exception established for UN sanctions regimes by United Nations Security Council Resolution 2664 (2022) adopted by the Security Council on 9th December 2002, the Regulations insert a humanitarian exception to the provisions implementing the asset-freeze in the listed sanctions regulations (and in the case of the Somalia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 and Haiti (Sanctions) Regulations 2022, replace the existing humanitarian exception). The exception provides that the prohibitions implementing the asset-freeze in the sanctions regimes mentioned above shall not apply in relation to activities carried out by a number of actors including the United Nations, its specialised agencies, or by international and non-governmental organisations supporting UN humanitarian work which are necessary to ensure the timely delivery of humanitarian assistance or to support other activities that support basic human needs\nA full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sector is foreseen. An impact assessment was, however, produced for the Sanctions Act and can be found at:\nhttps://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/653271/Sanctions_and_Anti-Money_Laundering_Bill_Impact_Assessment_18102017.pdf.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/121/note",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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